Trinida­di­an-born NFL Su­per Bowl cham­pi­on Ver­ron Haynes is plan­ning to host a camp in his home­land of Trinidad and To­ba­go to ex­pose per­sons in the Caribbean to the ba­sics of the sport.

KANSAS, Unit­ed States – Trinidad and To­ba­go long jumper, Tyra Git­tens-Spotsville pro­duced a record-break­ing leap on her way to cap­tur­ing gold at the K-State De­loss Dodds In­vi­ta­tion­al event over the week­end.

De­spite a dou­ble strike by Robert Primus of AC Port-of-Spain that threat­ened to take the spot­light in Sun­day’s (Feb­ru­ary 1) T&T Pre­mier Foot­ball League at the Man­nie Ramjohn Sta­di­um in Mara­bel­la, Club San­do FC pre­vailed in the end 3-2, which car­ried a re­sult of more sig­nif­i­cance, that of Club San­do main­tain­ing sec­ond on the 12-team stand­ings in Tier 1.

T&T’s Un­der-17 men’s foot­ballers will be­gin their cam­paign for World Cup qual­i­fi­ca­tion against Bar­ba­dos Tues­day night (Feb­ru­ary 3) from 7 pm at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um in Mu­cu­rapo, Port-of-Spain.

In a move that is re­shap­ing the re­gion­al sports land­scape, 18 young Trinida­di­ans have suc­cess­ful­ly trad­ed their text­books for head­sets and cam­eras, en­ter­ing the pro­fes­sion­al me­dia in­dus­try through a high-im­pact part­ner­ship be­tween KFC T&T and Rodeo Com­mu­ni­ca­tions.

HARARE, Zim­bab­we– The Emi­rates In­ter­na­tion­al Crick­et Coun­cil (ICC) In­ter­na­tion­al Pan­el of Um­pires and Ref­er­ees has an­nounced the of­fi­cials for the high­ly an­tic­i­pat­ed se­mi-fi­nals of the ICC Un­der-19 Men’s Crick­et World Cup 2026, with Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Za­hid Bas­sarath earn­ing a promi­nent as­sign­ment.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – With an eye on his­to­ry and a nod to leg­endary tri­umphs, Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) has launched the of­fi­cial ma­roon kit the re­gion­al side will wear at the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – A long­stand­ing le­gal dis­pute be­tween Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) and for­mer West In­dies wick­et­keep­er-bats­man Shane Dowrich has been am­i­ca­bly set­tled, clos­ing a chap­ter that be­gan with his ear­ly de­par­ture from the 2020 tour of New Zealand.

Yes, we knew he was not in good health, but the news of Aza­ad's death, com­mu­ni­cat­ed to me by Lasana this morn­ing, was still un­ex­pect­ed and cer­tain­ly shock­ing. I have known Aza­ad Mo­hammed-Khan since our days at St Mary's Col­lege more than fifty years ago.

The top­ic of “wast­ed time and en­er­gy” re­cent­ly popped up in my mind, specif­i­cal­ly re­gard­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go, rather than the Caribbean as a whole.

T&T’s Zuri Fer­gu­son won gold for the Uni­ver­si­ty of Flori­da ‘Gators’ in the women’s 200-yard back­stroke in their dual meet bat­tle with Flori­da State Uni­ver­si­ty, which they won 186-110 at the Flori­da Aquat­ic Swim­ming & Train­ing Fa­cil­i­ty in Ocala, Gainesville, Flori­da, USA on Fri­day (Jan­u­ary 30).

Tenique Vin­cent and La Queen Welch were the stand­out per­form­ers of the Na­tion­al As­so­ci­a­tion of Ath­let­ics Ad­min­is­tra­tions of T&T (NAAATT) Track and Field se­ries num­ber two over the week­end. Both ath­letes show­cased a blend of ex­plo­sive speed and tech­ni­cal jump­ing abil­i­ty to se­cure mul­ti­ple gold medals at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um in Mu­cu­rapo, Port-of-Spain.